Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood because their lives have lost value.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.
Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
Life is essentially a question of values.
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
If we truly value humanity, life, and all that it represents in its highest form, then we need to do all that we can to promote quality of life over the quantity of life.
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
BioViva is trying to help improve human health and wellbeing, and alleviate suffering. We are not trying to determine who should live or die. Everyone has a right to life without suffering.